Karen

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Danish Karen.

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Singular
Karen

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Karen

  1. A female given name. First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
    • 1878 Celia Thaxter, Drift-Weed, Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
      Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
    • 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen, W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
      I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

[edit] Etymology 2

From Burmese ကရင် (ka-reng), wild, low-caste man).

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Karen

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Karen

  1. A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.

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Ethnologue report on the Karen languages

[edit] Etymology 3

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Singular
Karen

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Karen

  1. A male given name, transliteration of the Armenian (Կարեն).

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Karen

  1. A female given name, a medieval variant of Katharina ( =Catherine).

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Karen

  1. A female given name of Danish origin.